The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-10-25
CHARACTERISTICS OF CRIMINALS.
NStural Peculiarities of European Mur-
derers and Thieves.

NStural Peculiarities of European MUIR
derers and Thieves.
Recently in France considerable at
tention has been paid to an examination
of the criminal class with reference to
its physical and associated Characters
tics. NJ. LacaSsague has drawn atten-
ton to the frequency of tattOOing among
criminals and the violent nature of the
scenes depicted by them in this volun-
tary mutilation. The same writer has
pointed out that criminals, as class,
are tall. Thus in 500 subjects exam
ined by him 623 were taller by six cent?
meters than the average, and some ex-
ceeded the normal height by ten and
twenty centimeters. These observations
were corroborated by NJ. Ferri, in Italy.
In 1882 DR. Manouvrier remarked
that among criminals, VIGOROUSLY with
murderers, the jaw is more developed
than is usual; and that while the cranlo-
mandibular index normally varies be-
tween r. 8 and Is, among the cOnvlcts
it attains the remarkable number OF
147. MN Hager and Dallemagne, in
comparative study of the skulls Of assas-
sins and ordinary persons, have con-
frmed the statement that the forward
projection of the skull is greater among
the former They have also shown that
criminals have larger facial index and
a smaller vertical index than the peace
able citizens, but no difference is observed
in the cephalic index.
NJ Hager has affirmed the larger
CAPACITY of the criminal skull over that
of the usual type, the relative proper
tioqS being as ,53G is to 1 400. This,
however, has been contradicted by
lumber of observers who claim the re-
verse, but it is suggested that it may be
explained by supposing that the former
examined the crania of murderers only,
while in the latter studies those Of all
classes were included, among which the
incendiaries are said to have small heads.
Mr.. Flesch has said that affections Of the
heart exist among criminals to the ex-
tent of 90 per cent. the persistence of
BOtars orifce, 10 per cent; contra
dictiOn of the vascular system, 55 per
cent. But his researches upon cerebral
LESSONS are much more important.
He has demonstrated certain atav-
ism IN the cerebral commissions, already
indicated by Benedict, as, for instance,
the medium lobe Of the brain being
shaped as among the mammals, the sep
aratlon OF the eulcarian tissue of Sylvius,
and the formation of an operculum of
the occlpltal lobe. Histology has also
detected certain anomalies in the brains
of those criminals whose autopsy has
been made Thus Spika has found the
plgInenuatlon OF the nucleum of the
tenth, seventh, and fifth pairs in a MUIR
derers brain; also Golgi and march,
nave detected the fermentation Of the
: nervous cells IN the brain of convict.
M. Mano has examined the hands of
rlmnals, and he has discovered among
ldlVldualS convicted for murder. among
nose guilty of inficting wounds a great
4Feponderance of large and short hands:
nile with thieves the frequency of Iono
"a narrow hands is less considerable
10 The question of tattooing he finds
AT the larger number of tattooed ner-
It's. ''''iil' OH" aSSdil-
LombrasO, together with M Mano
Stodled criminality among infants
examined $50 infants and exna.
~ l6O from the houses of refuge
found that the criminal TYNE coEld
recognized at that age asso-
Gu with bad tendencies. in the nro-
~ ION OF IA per cent. The loss of a
sense was recognized in 10 per
/. Out of twenty-nine infants thew
Observed the disappearance of the
llnal tendencies partly through non
rltance, partly under the benaf. cial
fence of their surroundings and
ny because their criminal nassionS
ing at a certain period, disappear
Inc typical criminal physiogpomv hoo
G cen recognized among murderers Ai in
Ger 0ermany IN the proportion of &c ner ar
cent'' among thieves to that of "a p per
co on,2 among insolvents, and in persons p
per rt cepf OF bigamy to the extent of
mo- nv IN Is per cent. With ordina,.y
fo un ana women this type was only
1 Vidnal. fourteen times among 815 indy Gy
M NalS, eight of whom were donhtfu1
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